Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50618-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 164, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

This book explores how introductory methods shaped school practice and intellectual activity in various fields of thought of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity. The isagogical crossroads—the intersection of philosophical, philological, religious and scientific introductory methods—embody a fascinating narrative of the methods regulating ancient readers' approach to authoritative texts and disciplines. The strongly innovative character of this book consists exactly in the attempt to explore isagogical issues in a wide-ranging and comprehensive perspective—from philosophy to religion, from medicine to exact sciences—with the aim of detecting connections, reciprocal influences, and interactions shaping the intellectual environment of the Early Imperial Age and Late Antiquity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Motta, Anna

Petrucci, Federico M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: Towards the Isagogical Crossroads

Anna Motta and Federico M. Petrucci

1 Isagogical Conceptions in the Peripatetic Exegesis of the Post-Hellenistic Age: Aspasius and the Others

Federico M. Petrucci

2 A Middle-Platonist Plato: Introductory Schemata and the Construction of a System in Diogenes Laertius

Franco Ferrari

3 The Nature of Apuleius’ De Platone: An Isagoge?

Justin A. Stover

4 Isagogic Patterns in Porphyry (Isagoge and Vita Plotini)

Irmgard Männlein-Robert

5 From the Stoic Division of Philosophy to the Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues

Anna Motta

6 Interpretive Strategies in Proclus’ Isagogical Remarks on the Timaeus

Gerd Van Riel

7 Eusebius and the Birth of Christian Isagogical Literature

Sébastien Morlet

8 Prolegomena to Medicine: The Role of the Hippocratic Aphorismi

Giulia Ecca

9 Isagogical Questions in Hipparchus’ Commentary on the Phaenomena

Victor Gysembergh

10 Musical Eisagogai

Eleonora Rocconi

Appendix: Gaudentius, Introduction to Harmonics. Introduction and Translation

Andrew Barker

Bibliography

General Index

Index Locorum